When I Was Invisible

DiaBetter was written for diabetics. Diabetes is a serious disease. As a type 1 diabetic, and have been for 29 years, I have experienced many problems. My diabetes seemed to be uncontrollable regardless of what I did. For the last year I have had the insulin pump and I am doing much better. When...

I often use my computer to play music when I am having visitors or when I am just not in front of the monitor. I wanted some way to still be able to see what song was playing. As my TV is connected to the computer I decided to make a screen saver that would do just this. (you dont need to even...

MIME-tool is a little mime encoding tool I slapped together when I needed something on a production box at work (productions = no C development environment, only the ancient K&R compiler required for god-knows-what sys-admin task). The resulting program will compile happilly on both the...


Platforms: *nix

PHPReports project started when I needed something to create some reports on the browser as replacement of those ones my company used to generate using tools like FoxPro, Visual Basic and all that m$ stuff you dudes know about. I was starting PHP programming (still am) and was really excited...


Platforms: *nix

DMS Reminder began when I came across a dude who took a picture of himself every day and turned it into a video. He had taken pictures of himself every day for years, and the video was amazing. I thought: I want to do that too! Then I began thinking about what sort of system would make the entire...


Platforms: Mac

I was looking for a data feed to get historical options prices, when I stumbled upon http://www.trade-strategy.com/. The site is quite broken, since most of the links don't work. (Maybe the guy got picked up by some company.) From the downloads page, I found a series of Matlab snippets, one of...


Platforms: Matlab

Basically, I wanted to have my comment replies hidden, and have them expand only when I clicked (what's used in this case) a div, using jQuery. So top-level comments are down, but of the comment has children (i.e. has any replies to that specific comment) they would be "folded shut". When you...


Platforms: PHP

NOTE: I am deprecating this module in favor of Ubercart's recurring billing (using Authorize ARB) + role promotion features which essentially accomplishes the same goal of this project.When I started this project this functionality in ubercart wasn't available. I would prefer to put my efforts...


Platforms: PHP

Peppa Popper I was inspired by a children???*a*?s TV show Peppa Pig visits Daddy Pig???*a*?s Office and the fact that my daughter (aged 16 months) has been taking marginally more interest in the computer. So I did a quick hack to write a program like Mrs Cat uses in the show. It shows a white...


Platforms: Mac

Today I was checking my blog???*a*?s spam folder - and I was surprised by what I saw. When I first set up this blog, spam comments would be giant list of links. It was completely unnatural and easy to spot. Then they changed into big collection of random words. Those would avoid pure "block...


Platforms: Mac

The first idea of myPod raised when I got my first iPod in spring 2002. I was looking for a program to put my favorite songs to this nice piece of hardware. After I had a look on ephpod I decided that there was room for another tool :) ( Anyway ephpod is pretty good - feel free to have a look at...


Platforms: *nix

A utility that I decided to write when I suddenly noticed that I had a lot of zip files that were building up and it got very annoying when I had to extract each one individually. This utility allows you to extract .ZIP and .EXE self-extracting files all in one process. All in 4 easy steps!!


Platforms: Windows

A long, long time ago, when magic was a common thing, people were not the only sentient beings on the Earth. There were also trolls, goblins, elves and more. Every so often, wars between the races broke out and chaos reigned. Some kingdoms would win over the others, and some would suffer defeat....


Platforms: Windows

This I call the "Loose Leaf Log Manager for Truck Drivers". When I was driving I found myself spending too much time gleaning driving hours so I decided to develop this application which, after many hours of development, ended up being a database. FEATURES - Searchable database; Distance...


Platforms: Windows

Sonar is a manuscript submission tracking program, I wrote it because I was going nuts keeping track of short story submissions. This program tells me which market has each story, whether a story has been sold or rejected and which stories are gathering dust instead of earning their keep. If you...


Platforms: Windows

Karen Version Browser 3.1 is a simple utility to apply to all those files that are scattered about your hard drive, and you don`t know what they do nor what use they are. The program offers you detailed information about each file that you indicate: when it was created, what program created it,...


Platforms: Windows

When I design web sites for clients, I now use this script to put the control into their hands; rather than hire me for every little content modification, they can easily make the changes themselves from any browser. Do they need to upload images? No problem; this script includes a file manager...


Platforms: *nix

CarWorld is a small driving simulator/demo I use to test various things of interest. It was mostly developed when I was a student. Car World is released with the full source code under the GNU General Public License. The rendering The two top pictures represent an slightly older version...


Platforms: *nix

GedanKen is a little karamba widget for your notes I was inspired by TooDoo and dbkalender. Nethertheless I wanted a theme that looked good with dbkalender, so I used the backgrounds from dbKalendar for a consistent look. I also used the "add" and "delete" button from TooDoo. After all this...


Platforms: *nix

Having worked with IP Filter on Solaris for a few years now, when I work on IP Tables in Linux I come to miss State Top. So I decided to write a version for IP Tables. IPTState is a state top along with a "single run" mode to quickly display states once. IP Tables State has customizable sorting...


Platforms: *nix